Health professionals commonly say, Don't look and it won't hurt before administering an injection, but is there any scientific basis for the advice?
Read moreDetailsWhat genetic changes account for the vast behavioral differences between humans and other primates? Researchers so far have catalogued only a few, but now it seems that they can add a big one to the list.
Read moreDetailsVision and hearing are so crucial to our daily lives that any impairments usually become obvious to an affected person. Although a number of known genetic mutations can lead to hereditary defects in these senses, little is known about our...
Read moreDetailsIf you trust your feelings you are better able to predict future events—from the weather to the stock market, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. Of course, you need to know a little about what...
Read moreDetailsIn a discovery that could help instructors better teach deaf children, a team of University of Chicago researchers has found that a gesture-sign mismatch made while explaining a math problem suggests that a deaf child is experiencing a teachable moment.
Read moreDetailsA small study from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers found that online virtual communities may be an effective way to train patients in meditation and other mind/body techniques.
Read moreDetailsAccording to one of the leading scholars in the field, there is an emerging consensus among scientists that animals share functional parallels with humans' conscious metacognition -- that is, our ability to reflect on our own mental processes and guide...
Read moreDetailsCan animals' survival instincts shed additional light on what we know about human emotion?New York University neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux poses this question in outlining a pioneering theory, drawn from two decades of research, that could lead to a more comprehensive...
Read moreDetailsAt UCLA's Laboratory of Integrative Neuroimaging Technology, researchers use functional MRI brain scans to observe brain signal changes that take place during mental activity. They then employ computerized machine learning (ML) methods to study these patterns and identify the cognitive...
Read moreDetailsNew research from Northwestern Medicine offers strong evidence that the brain uses predictive coding to generate predictive templates of specific smells -- setting up a mental expectation of a scent before it hits your nostrils.
Read moreDetailsAlberta School of Business researcher Sarah Moore and colleagues from Duke and Cornell universities say that unconscious feelings about objects in the environment influence the pursuit of long-term goals.
Read moreDetailsA new study of itch adds to growing evidence that the chemical signals that make us want to scratch are the same signals that make us wince in pain.
Read moreDetailsThe brain is apparently programmed from birth to develop the ability to determine sunrise and sunset, new research on circadian rhythms at the University of Chicago shows.
Read moreDetailsUnconsciously, right-handers associate good with the right side of space and bad with the left. But this association can be rapidly changed, according to a study published online March 9, 2011 in Psychological Science.
Read moreDetailsNorthwestern University scientists have discovered a new mechanism in the core gears of the circadian clock. They found the loss of a certain gene, dubbed "twenty-four," messes up the rhythm of the common fruit fly's sleep-wake cycle, making it harder...
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